A coming-of-age story about a young boy growing up in New Mexico during World War II. When a curandera name Ultima moves in with his family, Antonio experiences a series of mysterious and terrifying events, which cause him to grapple with questions about his own destiny and the powers of this mystical woman

In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village